10-01-2020, 10:54 AM
I agree with the staying in place too long, it's a reoccurring issue. The mission lead was killed at the barn battle, I ended up dropping from Phantom's team and taking command as I wanted to get us all moving again. In my opinion we were just sitting there taking on all comers and would soon be out of ammo, medical supplies, and men.
To be fair the mission lead was killed at the barn and loss of command does throw a monkey wrench into everything, that's why cutting the head off the snake is always an encouraged move, just a shame it happened to us in this case. I'm not sure how long the mission lead was out, but we had been there at the barn for quite a while when I finally pipped up, "What are we doing? What's the word from the top?" some one said "mission lead isn't responding." I ran along the barn back by a UAZ and saw the commander was dead. I felt I knew what needed to be done so I asked Phantom if I could drop from his team and that I was going to take the long range and assume command.
I should have responded to this thread earlier, (it's been a few days since the mission and I've forgotten all the details), I do recall that getting the survivors mounted up into vehicles and moving again was a bit of a cat herding operation. There was a lot of confusion and I think a few groups got split up into different vehicles.
I do think we need to continue to focus on breaking contact in a faster and more orderly fashion in the future. I've been noticing more attempts to do so lately, Alwarren or Varanon ordered a contact break and withdrawal the previous week on a mission on Altis that went perfectly. Way too often however a contact with firefight occurs and we go all in, even when the fight does not advance the mission goal or objective, it becomes a complete waste of resources and leads to mission failure.
Too often we let the enemy (the AI) choose the point of battle and then we stick there and fight to the death. You never let the enemy dictate the time or location of a battle. As a rule of thumb I'd say, if you didn't initiate the fire fight, withdraw as soon as possible. Once contact is broken, then evaluate to either re initiate contact at your discretion from an advantageous position or bypass if further engagement with that enemy does not advance the mission goal.
To be fair the mission lead was killed at the barn and loss of command does throw a monkey wrench into everything, that's why cutting the head off the snake is always an encouraged move, just a shame it happened to us in this case. I'm not sure how long the mission lead was out, but we had been there at the barn for quite a while when I finally pipped up, "What are we doing? What's the word from the top?" some one said "mission lead isn't responding." I ran along the barn back by a UAZ and saw the commander was dead. I felt I knew what needed to be done so I asked Phantom if I could drop from his team and that I was going to take the long range and assume command.
I should have responded to this thread earlier, (it's been a few days since the mission and I've forgotten all the details), I do recall that getting the survivors mounted up into vehicles and moving again was a bit of a cat herding operation. There was a lot of confusion and I think a few groups got split up into different vehicles.
I do think we need to continue to focus on breaking contact in a faster and more orderly fashion in the future. I've been noticing more attempts to do so lately, Alwarren or Varanon ordered a contact break and withdrawal the previous week on a mission on Altis that went perfectly. Way too often however a contact with firefight occurs and we go all in, even when the fight does not advance the mission goal or objective, it becomes a complete waste of resources and leads to mission failure.
Too often we let the enemy (the AI) choose the point of battle and then we stick there and fight to the death. You never let the enemy dictate the time or location of a battle. As a rule of thumb I'd say, if you didn't initiate the fire fight, withdraw as soon as possible. Once contact is broken, then evaluate to either re initiate contact at your discretion from an advantageous position or bypass if further engagement with that enemy does not advance the mission goal.